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I get to work as acting manager, completely understaffed, with the two worst employees tomorrow. also the manager is required to stay late if required...and lately we've been having to stay to 2, almost 3 in the morning when the shift ends at midnight..my boss hates me..really though he never fires, he just tortures..

I work grounds for a rather large apartment complex. The superintendent has a 07 silverado, and maintenance guys have a ford ranger. My job is the only job that really requires a truck (ok sometimes the maintenance guys too) yet I don't have one. I have to use my SUV, without gas compensation, to haul around everything one would expect to need for landscaping except mulch. The property company is also too ghetto to hire a lawn crew so they have ONE guy cutting 4 acres of property and ONE guy (me) trimming it. Then they ***** because things aren't getting done around the property.. well I wonder why? They also ***** because I refuse to cut the back part of the property because it is loaded with poison ivy, and I don't get paid enough to deal with that ****. My boss is one of those Christian types who uses his religion to hide his shortcomings and personality flaws. His office is filled with religious artifacts and frequently asks if I know "the lord".

All in all, I enjoy the job, but these are my gripes.

As for my buddies in maintenance, I feel bad for them. What used to be an EMERGENCY on call system, has now become a "help I have a hangnail!" system. The company will not reinforce the emergency only policy so they guys will get reamed out if they don't answer to every single problem tenants call in for. The superintendent will not take the call phone any more either.

While I had all the tools and equipment when I worked grounds too...it was stupid...it was a secondary thing..i was doing construction...but I had to hack down bamboo **** that grew inches a day, and waste a whole two days mowing / weed wacking rediculous landscape every week

People... leave you in charge of things?

I miss working, but right before I left my last job, it was terrible because no one wanted to be there, and I had always enjoyed working. I get a lot from the people around me when I'm working, and I just hope my next job has some more pleasant, less *****y people.

I work with a bunch of ghetto trash. One girl has "*****" tattooed on the side of her next and always gives me attitude, they all have names I can't pronounce, one girls name is Tequila but spelled very different, and her middle name is two other liquors.

They all call me white boy, honkey, whitey

But I gauranteed you if I ever called them blacky, my ass would be canned

**** reverse racism. **** it.

I love my job, its lots of fun and people are very friendly. However, I hate EBT. Watching what people buy with welfare money drives me crazy and has caused me to never want to use it even if it would greatly help me out. Seriously people, it exists to keep you alive until you can pay for yourself, not to get you only snacks and other expensive ****.

Yep my girlfriend works foodservice at a local grocery store with a pizzeria and sub shop and is regularly disgusted by the people who come with such self entitlement and buy cold subs with welfare money. That's why we need to do away with that **** or start mandating drug tests and proof of attempts at employment.

Also what royally pisses me off is that ghetto clothing store Rainbow accepts ebt now, cool, lets buy club clothes with my hard earned paycheck. Awesome.

Good God Genk!!! i would have an aneurysm if i worked that job!

Let's create layers of red tape and expensive and ineffective drug testing that only encourages the use of drugs that are less tested for because the ill informed poor drug users are costing this country so much more money than any of the other superfluous corporate welfare schemes.

The people who expect welfare to change people's poor habits and decisions would be the same people calling for the extermination of poor people if welfare weren't so inclusive. I'd rather people use a small amount of my money to buy mundane **** than people mugging me for all of my money to buy something far more expensive or useless.

Edit: While I don't think drug testing welfare recipients is an effective measure of control, my second paragraph is apparently very false. I just found a couple of comprehensive, unbiased studies that link welfare with increased violence, as it provides incentive and comfort to single parents, which in turn creates more violence and crime.

I get to take a paper from a box, write down its contents on an Excel file, take another paper, write down its contents etc.

Pays the bills. Rots the mind.

So I don't really know anything about sucky jobs, but mind is a terrible thing to waste... oh, whatever.

JMP!

And that mindset is exactly why we are where we are.

explain

Is reverse racism when you think someone is black BECAUSE they're a good athlete instead of thinking they're a good athlete because they're black?

In one of the safest, healthiest, most productive societies in the history of mankind? Let's not confuse world issues with the displeasure you feel after receiving a paycheck. There are serious oversight problems with our social services system, but we are hardly in any kind of "situation."

Edit: (I think I'd rather provide financial incentive for drug users on welfare to get off of drugs than withhold a family's welfare because of drug use. I think an intelligent, well tested approach to welfare reform would be far more beneficial than a totalitarian police state.)

The only thing stupid about my work is some of the messes that my predecessor (who was fired for sucking basically) left that I have to clean up. Other than that I love my job.

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racism

Reverse racism is more like treating a black person (or another selected minority) better than you would a white person just so that no one can question that you might be racist.

I've been underpaid in every job I've had for the past 7 years.

During college/before graduating, I had a job that payed me $10.00 USD per hour. I have not had a job to match that since graduating college.

My boss told me she had hired a new person and was going to put them on the closing shift. I was supposed to come in as usual, work three hours and then go home so the boss could come in with the new person to train them in closing the shop.

I close the shop five days a week, and a sixth day every second week. The other girl that closes the store those other one or two nights a week was also told she was going home after three hours. And this was apparently going to last several months. The other girl and I are the only two people that have been closing the shop for nearly two years. The boss never closes the store, can barely manage a successful interaction with the till, doesn't know how to use the rental computer and generally has no idea what the **** she's doing. And I'm the one getting sent home?

I told her it was insulting, and also illegal to reduce working hours without mutal agreement between employer and employee. She laughed at me, so I gave my two weeks notice (this was on the 7th).

Apparently she didn't think I was serious. The next day the new person called to say they'd been offered full time work elsewhere. Then she asked me if I was serious about leaving. I said yes and now she's not speaking to me.

Good.

If I recall correctly, your boss is a jackass.

Reverse racism is when someone of a lesser race than yours thinks their race is the better one.

More serious : Not everyone on welfare abuses it; but the people who do don't buy those things because they are on welfare - they are on welfare because they buy those things. It doesn't represent a sense of entitlement, that the government must support them, but rather, an inability to manage money. You can't say that being poor makes a person stupid (though it certainly can make you uneducated), but being stupid often makes one poor.

I try to stay positive, because I'm grateful to finally have a full time salary plus benefits, but I kind of hate my job. It's completely uninteresting and, while I think I have a lot of excellent skills, this job highlights none of my strengths and highlights all of my weaknesses. While I'm all about using it as a chance to improve on my weaknesses, as a generally very competent person, I hate feeling completely incompetent. And I do. But I just signed a lease and, frankly, it took me a year and a half to find THAT job, so I'm not seeing a way out anytime soon.

Sorry, that was less a stupid work situation and more of a rant.

i've been a people greeter at walmart (not all of them are old people) i don't think anyone can bring up a ****tier job... even the janitor at a peep show has a better job

the wastes of semen i dealt with were the kind that walk and talk

Your both way off on reverse racism.

Reverse racism is when a minority, most commonly black people, are over-catered to, to the point where they are given special treatment compared to your dime a dozen white guy. Examples of this are companies who give in to the abuse of the. "Race card", jobs not hiring qualified white applicants in order to fill the affirmative action quota, etc. It can also be taken literally as reverse racism against white people, ex. The black panthers, south Africa, etc.

racism against white people is racism no reverse about it

Right, but this is the most common use of the term.

Yeah but we all knew what he meant, we were just being dicks.

I love my job!

Congrats. You're like 1 in a thousand.

Wake up, everyone. We live in an age of crap jobs, a vast majority of which aren't necessary. People can do their own landscaping (or simply use natural vegetation), cook their own damn food, and shop online. At best, we could be spending 2 months out of the year growing our food, maintaining our infrastructure, and moving crap from point a to point b. With the other 10 months, I'm sure we can think of something better than this ****.

I think part of the problem is people are willing to let a job they hate define who they are. If someone asks what I "do" my first thought is not 'oh I'm a shipping and receiving manager!' No that is just what I do to earn money so I can do the things I love to do. I mean seriously find something you love to do, and start doing it. Maybe you can make a career out of it, maybe not. Personally I would rather work till the day I die and spend most of my time and money doing something I love than be a slave to a job I hate because it 'has benifits'.
Just my .02

Hahahahaha. Seriously? Tell me how, I'd really love to hear it.

My current job is great but my old one was soul-destroying: working in NHS hospital admin.

One of my tasks was juggling the cleaning staff at a large hospital and making sure all our wards were covered every day. This was ~500 shifts to be filled by temp staff each week. Most were very poor, foreign workers and with that came all sorts of issues - someone would come in drunk/threaten patients/accuse other staff of taking bribes/refuse to clean toilets on religious grounds/make sexual harassment accusations. Some would be found asleep on the job on night shifts as they were working 20 hr days on the quiet to make ends meet. There were incredible levels of racism from a pool of workers which were almost all originally from other countries. Petty arguments would turn into animal carcasses left outside manager's offices or someone would anonymously inform the Border Agency about some of the staff and we'd have the police turn up and remove workers mid-shift and disappear them (the temp agency was meant to do the appropriate checks but clearly weren't putting much effort into it). Staff would disappear, equipment would disappear, keys entrusted only to a couple of workers would be used for burglaries. Or a worker would come back from Ghana or Nigeria seeing family and he'd be grey with fever from malaria as he'd taken muti rather than the expensive evidence-based medicine.

The perm. workers would claim stress or a non-descript illness frequently and take sick leave for months and return (sometimes only very briefly) without consequence, abusing the excellent rights that Unison had fought for for them. Management would hire personal friends for highly paid consultancy roles. Or they'd use public money for frivolous purposes like rearranging offices and expensively refurbishing them for minor aesthetic purposes (I watched an extra kitchenette go up because a director didn't want to walk 20m to get a cup of tea. Then when she got upset with the look of the recently ousted photocopier, she had an extra cupboard-like room built to house it.) Much of the management was completely ill-equipped for their roles, several of them were unable to understand the balance sheet for their own budgets and would turn to their admin staff to sit with them and explain it to them. And, in my last couple of weeks there, a piece of long-term fraud started to unravel before me and I had to be interviewed by an investigatory committee.

There were a few great people in there (sadly several of whom were deported) but the system made it easy to be stupid and nasty and frankly encouraged it in places.

One dose of anti-smartass coming right up:

Poor white people.

Yeah but, that's just 'racism'. Racism can't be reversed, because the reverse of racism is racism.

That's a video of one successful black couple and one zef family, thanks for that great example of how South Africa is now systematically rife with reverse racism.

According to you "Reverse racism is when a minority, most commonly black people, are over-catered to, to the point where they are given special treatment compared to your dime a dozen white guy".

Black people are not a minority in South Africa and were oppressed for centuries. South Africa remains a country that is both first world and third world depending on your race. The vast majority of black South Africans still live in poverty and money is still overwhelmingly concentrated with white South Africans. Affirmative action is the only way black South Africans are going to succeed and start to draw level with their white counter-parts in a remotely acceptable time period. There are plenty of problems with the way this is being implemented and this is leading to a brain drain in SA but you can hardly call it reverse racism to try to correct a situation born out of decades of brutal apartheid. Maybe when the black population isn't mostly living in shanty towns and broken-down, unserviced townships will the accusation that affirmative action constitutes reverse racism ring true. In the meantime, you're talking out the wrong end of your alimentary canal.

Just look at the demographics sub-sections for blacks and whites here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_South_Africa - the country is still a long way from a happy rainbow nation.

While I don't ever at all agree with white people who think black people are somehow favored over them, I do think the distinction of skin color when making laws is ineffective at combating skin-based racism. The problem isn't black people as many laws would imply, the problem is black people that are poor. I'd rather we addressed the problem of poverty and its effects on minorities than use the same logic that oppressed those groups in order to "enforce" equality, which is never going to be possible.

That said, affirmative action is an effective, incredibly cost-effective bandage for a much bigger problem that I'm not sure anything but time will solve. Seriously, AA makes up a tiny fraction of school and work grants.

Typical massassian misquote technique.

The first definition I gave that you so tactfully misquoted was in
Reference to reverse racism as perceived in the United States. The second part which you cunningly left out, referred to literal reverse racism found in the video I posted.

+1 for the attempted misquote though. You should get into law.